Ecological drift can override the effects of deterministic niche selection on small populations
and drive the assembly of some ecological communities. We tested this hypothesis with a …

Habitat loss is the greatest threat to the persistence of forest‐dependent amphibians, but it is
not the only factor influencing species occurrences. The composition of the surrounding …

Objective Three competing hypotheses might explain the widely documented
intrapopulation larger‐fish‐upstream phenomenon. The age‐phased recruitment hypothesis …

Reservoirs and by-passed sections may alter downstream ecological processes of rivers, so
understanding their effects is essential for watersheds impacted by small hydropower power …

Some local communities contribute more to beta diversity than others, which has been
known as compositional uniqueness or local contribution to beta diversity. Compositional …

Metacommunity models predict that species richness and composition patterns in
communities are determined predominantly by environmental selection and dispersal, with …

Litter breakdown is an important ecological process at the bottom of food webs in streams.
Previous studies have been based only on a temporal interval of a single season, thus …

The feeding behavior of shredders and scrapers (invertebrates) is important for litter
processing in aquatic ecosystems. We assessed the importance of invertebrate activity for …

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of physicochemical parameters and
macrophyte on the macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Ketar River, which drains into …

Aquatic macroinvertebrate communities are dependent on intrinsic environmental
characteristics and biological interactions in microhabitat systems. We investigated the …